Dress-shield



(No Model.) B. P. SUTTON.

DRESS SHIELD.

No. 606,251. Patent'ed June 28, 1898.

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BENJAMIN F. SUTTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DRESSBSHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,251, dated J une 28, 1898. Application filed May 3, 1397. Serial No. 634,849. (N0 mOtleL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. SUTTON, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dress-Shields, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the dress-shield which is the subject of United States Letters Patent No. 561,067, dated May 26, 1896. That shield was made of pliable and flexible material corrugated to form, in connection with the dress and body of the wearer when in use, a series of collapsible and dilatable channels. In the shield described and illustrated in those Letters Pat ent the corrugations extended from the line where the shield was folded to fit the armpit all the way to the edges; but according to the present invention the corrugations extend from the said line of fold and terminate at some distance within the edges, and a flat, smooth, or uncorrugated margin is formed. This margin gives a double advantage to the shield, viz: It preserves the form of the outer portions of the corrugations, while not prej udicially impairing the dilatabilityi and collapsibility of their channels, and it affords better facility for the stitching around the edges of a binding and an outer'covering of silk or other woven fabric.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved dress-shield having an outer covering and a binding, showing a portion turned aside to expose the corrugations to view. Fig. 2 is a side view of the corrugated body of the shield without the covering or binding. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section in the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the body or inner corrugated portion of the shield, made of soft india-rubber vulcanized or properlycured or of any suitable fabric which is pliable or flexible in all directions and coated with rubber to render it proof against perspiration. This resembles the shield described in the hereinabove-mentioned Letters Patent, having corrugations a, forming, in connection with the dress and body of the wearer when in use, a series of collapsible and dilatable tubular channels; but the corrugations, commencing at the fold I), do not extend all the way to its outer edges, but terminate some distance within the said edges in fiat or smooth margins c.

B is a covering of silk or other material applied over the outer surface of the corrugated body A, and O is a binding of ribbon or tape which is folded over the edges of the body A and covering B and is stitched, together with the covering, to the flat margins 0. These flat margins provide for smoothly attaching the edges of the covering and binding, and, what is far more important, they constitute, especially in the lower parts of the shield, a bracing to the lower ends of the channels formed by the corrugations,whereby the form of the said channels is preserved, while their collapsibility and dilatability are not prej udicially affected.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A dress-shield comprising a body or inner portion of pliable and flexible material having corrugations which extend from the line of the fold of the shield to within some distance from the edges thereof and form channels in the faces thereof and having a flat margin which constitutes a brace to said channels, substantially as herein described.

2. A dress-shield comprising a body or inner portion of pliable and flexible material having corrugations which extend from the line of the fold of the shield to within some distance of the edges thereof and having a flat or smooth margin and a binding which is folded over the edges and is attached to said flat or smooth margin beyond the termination of the corrugations, substantially as herein described.

BENJAMIN F. SUTTON. 

